Download or read book Estimation of Random Fields from Network Observations. Technical Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When one has observed a random field Z at some points and recorded its values (network observations), a natural problem is to estimate Z at points where there are no observations. This dissertation deals first with this problem in an abstract setting, in m dimensions; later, it considers the estimation of a spatial two-dimensional random field. The problem then is one of constructing an estimated map of Z over a geographic area. For a given network of stations the quality of a map depends on the method of estimation. But for the given method of estimation the quality of a map depends on the choice of locations for the stations. This is the problem of network design. Both the study of methods of estimation and the problem of network design are addressed. 16 figures. (RWR).